. . . A Lubitsch film
considered to be lost has been rediscovered and restored? THE LOVES
OF PHARAOH (1922) is a silent epic Lubitsch made in Germany. A
restored version of the film with a new orchestra score will premiere at
the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Oct. 18th, 2011.
A DVD and Bluray release is also in the works!
More info >

. . . Ernst Lubitsch will be honored this year (2011) with a star on the BOULEVARD OF THE STARS in Berlin?
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. . . Five Ernst Lubitsch films have now been inducted
into the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film
Registry? The NFR was established in 1989 to preserve films
deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important." To
date, the Lubitsch films which have been preserved under the NFR program
are: Lady Windermere's Fan (1925); Trouble in Paradise (1932);
Ninotchka (1939); The Shop Around the Corner (1940); To Be Or
Not To Be (1942). More info >

. . . The Hourglass Group Ltd. Theatre group adapted
the 1932 classic Lubitsch film TROUBLE IN PARADISE to the stage? The
world premiere took place in June 2006. They teamed with
award-winning comedic writer David Simpatico and jazz composer/musician
Steven Bernstein who created an original score for the
production. More
Info >

. . . "To Be Or Not To Be" premieres on Broadway
Oct. 14, 2008? The new play, written by Nick Whitby is based on the
1942 Lubitsch film. More Info
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. . . The film "You've Got Mail" is based on the Ernst
Lubitsch classic "The Shop Around the Corner?" More info
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. . . There is a movie theatre named after
Lubitsch? It is called "Cinema Lubitsch" and is located in Palermo,
Italy. More info
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. . . There is an award named after Ernst Lubitsch?
Each year in Berlin, Germany the "Ernst Lubitsch Award" (also known as:
Verleihung des Ernst-Lubitsch-Preises) is given by Germany's leading film
critics. More info >

. . . There is a bar named after Lubitsch? It's
called "Bar Lubitsch" and is located in West Hollywood, California.
This popular and trendy bar has a Russian theme and is not so much a
direct tribute to Mr. Lubitsch but a kind of homage to classic
Hollywood. They do have a drink on the menu inspired by a
Lubitsch film -- the "Ninotchka" made with vanilla vodka, muddled
strawberries and champagne. More info >

"I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help
it if they misconstrue my suggestions?"

"There is Paramount Paris and Metro Paris, and of course the real
Paris. Paramount's is the most Parisian of all."

"I don't believe
in reproducing a play on the screen exactly as it was done on the stage.
Anyone can make a carbon copy. Carbons are always dull."

"I think I
am possessed only of a fascination for the work I have chosen to do . . .
I am so engrossed by the production of a film that I literally think of
nothing else. I have no hobby, no outside interests and want
none."

"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write
and I understand."

"I sometimes make pictures which are
not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that
all his work is up to his standard."

"In
Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather
bindings."

"Nobody should try to play
comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."

"There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only
one."

On
Lubitsch:

"None of us thought we were making anything but
entertainment for the moment. Only Ernst Lubitsch knew we were making
art." -- John Ford

"A man of pure cinema." --
Alfred
Hitchcock

"I worshipped him. I admired his work enormously. He
went head and shoulders beyond everyone in the field of sophisticated high
comedy. -- Joseph Mankiewicz

"In that Golden Age of Hollywood that everybody's
always talking about there were only two directors whose names meant
anything to the public and critics: Cecil B. DeMille and Ernst
Lubitsch." -- Claudette Colbert

"I loved
Lubitsch, mainly for his tremendous desire to make something funny with
class . . . It was strange -- he really should have been a
Frenchman." -- Edgar G. Ulmer

"He was the only great director out there.
Ninotchka was the only time I had a great director in
Hollywood. -- Greta Garbo

"Lubitsch was a
giant . . . his talent and originality were stupefying." --
Orson Welles

"He could do more to show the grace and humor of sex
in a nonlustful way than any other director I've ever heard
of." -- Charles Chaplin

"Lubitsch had the
greatest sense of humor of any individual I've ever met. The actors all
loved him. He had a very . . . human quality about him. He was the type of
man that became your friend after you met him once. A great
man." -- Joseph M. Newman

“Everything in a Lubitsch film counts: every gesture,
every word, every design choice for every set, every angle, every second.”
He was absolutely remarkable. And like many
of the directors that came out of the silent era, he understood form so
perfectly.” -- Martin Scorsese

"Lubitsch towered above anybody, creatively, that I
met in Hollywood . . he was the greatest craftsman who ever lived . . . in
the sense of knowing the most brilliant and original way to use the
medium." -- Samson Raphaelson

"His life was an uninterrupted ribbon of
film." --Unnamed Friend

"Ernst Lubitsch was the complete architect of motion
pictures. His stamp was on every frame of film -- from conception to
delivery. For high style, romantic comedies and spicy musicals he
set a standard that has not been equaled. The Lubitsch 'touch' was
unique." --
Frank
Capra

"Ernst Lubitsch was truly the auteur of his
films. He created a style of sophisticated comedy peculiarly his
own, as well as a new style of musical, both unknown before his
time. His films bore the recognizable and indelible stamp of the
gay, clever, witty, mischevious master, whose delightful personality
matched his work. I am proud to have known his as a friend and
teacher. Lubitsch's films were truly Lubitsch's, possessive credit
intended." -- William
Wyler

"His films were loaded with a kind of wit which was
specifically the essence of the intellectual Berlin in those days.
This man was so strong that when he was asked by Hollywood to work there,
he not only didn't lose his Berlin style but he converted the Hollywood
industry to his own way of expression." -- Jean
Renoir

"Ernst Lubitsch was a pixie. There were three or four master directors in
Hollywood in the 30s and 40s, men for whom the biggest stars in the world
tripped over each other in their anxiety to be invited to work, Ernst
Lubitsch was the master's master." -- David Niven